Maori Representation Regulations




Numb. 63.

783

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND
GAZETTE
OF THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1879.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1879.

Maori Representation Acts—Additional Regulations.

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance of every power and authority enabling
me under "The Maori Representation Act,
1867," as amended by "The Maori Representation
Act Amendment and Continuance Act, 1872," and
"The Maori Representation Acts Continuance Act,
1876," I, Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby
proclaim that the following regulations making
further provision for the matters named in the ninth
section of the first above-mentioned Act shall be in
force in addition to the regulations heretofore
proclaimed on the fourteenth day of December, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-five:—

ADDITIONAL REGULATIONS.

  1. Wherever in the aforesaid regulations of the
    fourteenth of December, one thousand eight hundred
    and seventy-five, it is provided that the Governor
    shall or may make any appointment, or do any act
    under any of the said regulations, it is hereby de-
    clared that he shall have the power to make such
    appointment or to do such act from time to time
    and as often as occasion shall require, and similarly
    to vary or abolish any such appointment, and to
    modify, vary, or revoke any such act.

  2. The provisions contained in the above-mentioned
    regulations relating to the issue of writs for the
    election of members for the electoral districts named
    in the first above-mentioned Acts, and to all matters
    incident to any such elections, and all other provi-
    sions of the said regulations as amended by these
    regulations shall, mutatis mutandis, be applied from
    time to time, as occasion may require, in every case
    of a vacancy occurring in the representation of any
    such electoral districts.

Given under the hand of His Excellency
Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distin-
guished Order of Saint Michael and Saint
George, Governor and Commander-in-
Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony
of New Zealand and its Dependencies,
and Vice-Admiral of the same; and
issued under the Seal of the said Colony,
at Dunedin, this first day of May, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-nine.

JOHN SHEEHAN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Appointing Polling-places.

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers in me vested, I, Sir
Hercuies George Robert Robinson, Governor of
the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the
following places to be polling-places for the Eastern
and Southern Maori Electoral Districts constituted
under "The Maori Representation Act, 1867,"
"The Maori Representation Act Amendment and
Continuance Act, 1872," and "The Maori Repre-
sentation Acts Continuance Act, 1876," in lieu of
any other polling-places previously appointed for the
said districts:—



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🪶 Proclamation issuing additional regulations under Maori Representation Acts

🪶 Māori Affairs
1 May 1879
Maori Representation Act, Regulations, Governor, Elections, Vacancies
  • Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, Governor
  • John Sheehan

🪶 Appointment of polling-places for Eastern and Southern Maori Electoral Districts

🪶 Māori Affairs
Polling-places, Eastern Maori Electoral District, Southern Maori Electoral District, Elections
  • Hercules Robinson, Governor